US4734107A - Method and device for the direct on-column injection of samples containing high boiling point and/or medium volatile compounds - Google Patents

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US4734107A
US4734107A US06/817,195 US81719586A US4734107A US 4734107 A US4734107 A US 4734107A US 81719586 A US81719586 A US 81719586A US 4734107 A US4734107 A US 4734107A
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  • the present invention relates to a method and device for direct non vaporizing on-column injection of samples containing high-boiling point and/or medium volatile compounds in gas chromatographic analysis on capillary columns.
  • Gas chromatography using a capillary column operates in accordance with well known principles, using an apparatus also well known, consisting essentially of an oven or gas chromatography chamber containing the capillary column; an injector device at the upstream end of the column and a detector device at the downstream end.
  • the sample is diluted in an appropriate solvent and admitted to the column through the injector. It is carried through the column by the carrier gas.
  • the elution of the sample occurs according to a time parameter based principally on the affinity of the sample for the stationary phase, which coats the inside of the column, and the speed of the carrier.
  • the Applicant offered a solution to this type of problem: moving the injector and the injection section of the column outside the oven during injection, and returning it after the solvent had passed through the column.
  • the main defect of this solution is that it requires mechanical movement of the injector and column, which, among other things, is difficult to automate.
  • the injection at oven temperatures low with respect to the initial temperature required for the chromatographic separation creates needless time losses in heating the oven and cooling after the "temperature program" (the analysis is usually made by programming the oven temperature between an initial and final temperature).
  • the present invention relates to a new method and new device for the direct non-vaporizing on-column injection of samples containing high boiling point and/or medium volatile compounds dissolved in volatile solvents, which allow oven temperatures at the injection stage to be much higher than those in the "on-column" technique.
  • the cooling device is adjusted to bring the temperature of the cooled part of the column or precolumn to that corresponding to the requirements of the direct non-vaporizing on-column injection.
  • the cooled tract of the column is at least 10 cm long and the maximum quantity of sample and solvent injected is related to this length, as well as to the diameter of the column and the type of solvent, so that the area of the initial tract wetted by the sample on injection is not greater than the length cooled, e.g. this quantity could be in the order of 0.1-0.2 ⁇ l/cm of cooled column in normal operating conditions.
  • the shutting off of the cooling device causes rapid heating of the aforementioned tract until it reaches oven temperature.
  • the invention provides for an injection device of the direct non-vaporizing on-column type, e.g. as described in U.S. Pat. No. 4,269,608 and incorporating a cooling system which can be switched on and off and which extends for at least 10 cm along the initial tract of the gas chromatographic column or precolumn located in the oven.
  • the cooling means according to the invention is a tube surrounding the initial tract of the column for at least 10 cm and open to the oven at the downstream end and connected at the upstream end to a source of coolant gas, whose temperature and/or pressure and/or flow can be controlled. It would be convenient if this tube, which should be quickly and easily detachable and reattachable to the body of the injector, were of a high thermal conductivity material so that the tract of the column involved in the cooling could follow correctly the heating program of the oven when the cooling is switched off.
  • gas e.g. air
  • FIG. 1 is an axial section of an injector fitted with the device according to the invention.
  • FIG. 2 shows in larger scale a detail of the device shown in FIG. 1.
  • FIG. 3 is a side view of the cooling tube particularly suited to the invention, and also shows the results of temperature measurements made.
  • FIG. 4 is an enlarged cross-section of part of the tube shown in FIG. 3.
  • FIGS. 5 and 6 are chromatograms for comparison--the first made according to current practice and the second according to the invention.
  • a gas chromatographic injector of the already known "on-column" type is shown in axial section and indicated as 10.
  • the injector which shall not be described in detail since this has already been done in U.S. Pat. No. 4,269,608, is attached by the retaining nut 12 to the oven body 14 in which the gas chromatography column is located.
  • the injector 10 presents a precision drilled internal seating 18, which leads into a lower chamber 20 opening into the oven. This seating 18 takes the end of the gas chromatography column or precolumn free of stationary phase connected downstream to the gas chromatography column.
  • the chamber 20 has a threaded section 22 to take the retaining barrel 24 which holds the tube 26 whose head 28 abutts against a conical gland 30 making a gas tight seal (under the action of tightening the barrel 24) with the countersunk opening connecting the seating 18 with the chamber 20.
  • the conical gland 30 has an opening 32 for the conical 16, while the head 28 has a distribution chamber surrounding the end of the column or precolumn 16 and connected via a duct 34 to the chamber 20 which in turn is connected to the outside by the opening 34'.
  • the distribution chamber 28 is connected to the space 36 between the exterior of the column or precolumn 16 and the interior of the tube 26, whose diameters are therefore different, and ultimately opens to the interior of the oven 14.
  • the tube 26, and therefore the space 36 extend coaxially with the column or precolumn 16, inside the oven for a certain length which determines the length of the column or precolumn which is cooled during the injection of the sample.
  • a fluid (possibly, but not necessarily, compressed air) enters through the ducts 34, 34'. This fluid, guided by the tube 26, runs through the space 36 and washes over the exterior of the column or precolumn.
  • the tube 26 should preferably be of high thermal conductivity material and extend into the oven (whose inner wall 40 is shown) for at least 10 cm beyond the point of injection, e.g. the point of injection 42 is shown and the tube 26 extends as far as point 44.
  • the injection is carried out with the oven temperature much higher than the boiling point of the solvent while compressed air is passed through space 36, maintaining that part of the column or precolumn to the point 44 at a temperature much lower than the oven. While the solvent is vapourized and passes into the column, the high boiling point and/or medium volatile components remain in the initial tract of the column or precolumn 16 up to the point 44 because of the thermal conditions and, if the column is coated, because of the affinity of the compounds for the stationary phase.
  • the cooling is switched off so that the initial tract of the column or precolumn 16 can reach oven temperature and begin elution of the sample, following the changes in temperature programmed.
  • the tube consists of a threaded connection 22 at the top of the locking barrel 24 for locating it in the non-vaporizing direct on-column injector, and the tube 26 proper below. From the point 46, a certain distance "h" below the locking nut 24 the tube is enclosed by a jacket 54 of a material (e.g. glass fibre) porous to the coolant gas (e.g. air). The jacket is held in position by a lower retaining ring 50 and a spiral wire 52 wrapped around its length, allowing the jacket to expand radially.
  • a material e.g. glass fibre
  • the coolant gas e.g. air
  • the tube 26 has a restriction in the end which opens into the oven, formed by narrowing the tube, to create a counterpressure in the space 36.
  • the tube 26 has a series of radial holes 60, through which the air, forced in through the connection 22 and impeded by the restriction, passes to form an air space between the tube 26 and the jacket 54 as shown in FIG. 4.
  • the air space acts as a temporary insulation and helps to maintain the lower temperature in the space 36 and the corresponding tract of the column 16.
  • the jacket 54 returns to its position around the tube 26 under the action of the spiral retainer 52, eliminating the air space and its insulation, and allowing the tube 26, the space 36 and the enclosed tract of column or precolumn 16 to reach oven temperature quickly.
  • the initial tract of tube 26 of length "h" is not jacketed because it is already sufficiently cooled by the efficiency of the initial secondary cooling as well as the primary cooling of the injector.
  • 0.5 ⁇ l of colza oil sterols dissolved in heptane were injected on a 20 m OV 17 column of internal diameter 0.32 mm and stationary phase thickness of 0.15 ⁇ m.
  • Cooling was by compressed air at 3 kg/cm 2 using the cooling tube shown in FIG. 3, with an overall length, from the roof of the chamber of 18.6 cm.
  • Two analyses were made of the same sample, the first starting with the oven at 90° C. and rising at 300° C. with a temperature gradient of 30° C./minute, and thereafter proceeding isothermically. The result is shown in FIG. 5 with the time plotted on the horizontal axis.
  • the second analysis was made by injecting the sample with the oven temperature at 300° C. and maintaining this for the time required for the analysis. The results are shown in FIG. 6, giving results identical to FIG. 5, but in much shorter time.
  • the method and device described in the invention can be used with any type of capillary column and with samples containing volatile components, provided that these volatile components are not required to be analysed.

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